According to the NRA, British and French scientists have come up with a new recommendation for people who suffer from seasickness during a flight on a plane or, for example, while boating - they must do everything possible to ensure that the rocking rhythm does not coincide with the breathing rhythm itself. Experts point out that this is not so easy and this recommendation is not feasible for longer trips, but for short trips, such as up to half an hour, it could be useful.
Scientists are coming up with a new recommendation against seasickness
Researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Lower Normandy have involved 256 volunteers in their study, who have been offered a trip in flight simulators commonly used for pilot training. The simulators simulate quite strong turbulence, with their chairs swinging continuously at an angle of up to 60 degrees. It should be noted that with a half-hour stay in these chairs, the symptoms of seasickness were observed in all volunteers - the stronger, the less pronounced.
Scientists have begun to look for regularities and have found that people who have adjusted their breathing to the rhythm of the swing suffer the most from swinging, and they inhale intuitively when the chair tilts back, but exhale when it leans forward. It is they who have the fastest symptoms of seasickness.
Those who took a breath when the chair was tilted forward were a little more durable, but those who managed to make their breathing rhythm completely independent of the swinging rhythm suffered the least from seasickness. Scientists have reminded that the sense of balance and the state of our body in space is responsible for the signals that the brain receives not only from the middle ear, but also from the stomach area. If these signals do not coincide (the signal from the stomach enters the brain later than the signal from the middle ear, and they do not coincide when the condition of the human body changes rapidly), the person becomes nauseous.
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